As you know, I love to stretch my leftovers and repurpose them until every last bit has been used! And if I can’t find a recipe to use what I have, I see if I can make one up. These are my latest kitchen experiments:
I recently received a jar of raw honey to review for Contest Corner, so I used it to make a honey glaze for the pork roast I got inexpensively with a coupon. The glaze consisted of honey, soy sauce, brown sugar, olive oil, and seasoned rice vinegar – click here if you’d like the full recipe. It was a big hit!
This made enough for two separate meals, and I still had a bone left with scraps of meat and lots of nice glaze. I decided to get really experimental and see if I could make it into a soup!
I put the bone, glaze, and two potatoes in a stock pot with some water and cooked it for several hours. I ran it through the food processor to blend, then added some more water and returned to the stove. The “Soup” was so thick and rich that it was more like a sauce – so I decided to freeze it and use it later as a gravy! I think this would be great on meat or even mashed potatoes; I might use this at Thanksgiving.
Another one of my recent kitchen creations involved repurposing fast food leftovers. I had a tiny amount of nachos left over that we had gotten at a local Mexican restaurant – It wasn’t enough to feed even one person by itself, so I made a “Nacho Scramble”!
I put the nachos in a frying pan and sauteed with chopped green bell peppers and corn.
I then added a little flaxseed, eggs, cheese, and Taco Bell taco sauce – this isn’t the first meal I’ve made with leftover sauce packets!
Nachos and scrambled eggs aren’t a combination that you would automatically think of, but this turned out very tasty!
Readers: Have you come up with a unique way to use leftovers? I’d love to hear about it!
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In SoCal we have breakfast nachos…they are called chilequilles!
Thanks for stopping by, guys! Mmm…breakfast nachos sound good!
I Love the repurpose of the leftovers I do this all the time. Just yesterday we went out to lunch and i could not finish my fruit cup. I brought it home and it was the side dish with today’s sandwhich for lunch. Tiny amounts of food come in major handy for stretching the food dollars. At get togethers for church , relatvies and friends, I take all that are offered the last three months we have managed to keep our household food budget at $150.00 due to eating all of these leftovers. I use to hate leftovers as a kid, but by repurposing them it is like an entire new meal each time. Now I love them!
We do a “take” on a Shepherd’s Pie with leftovers – using instant mashed potatoes and any meat and veggies that are leftover from the week!
Thanks for sharing your ideas for using leftovers, Janet and Tammy! I totally agree – it’s amazing how far you can stretch a tiny amount of food by repurposing it in another dish.
When I make pot roast in my slow cooker, I always use the left overs to make pasta sauce 🙂 Your food looks delicious!
Thanks Missy! Using the pot roast leftovers to make pasta sauce is a great idea.
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